Creative Realities [1] is the latest to add its name as a sponsor to the first-ever Retail Evolution Summit [2], the premier thought-leadership event bringing together marketers, designers and technologists from across the retail industry to gain and share valuable ideas and experiences through fun and informative discussions.
[2]CRI adds to the growing sponsor list that already includes: Scala [3], Hughes [4], Seneca [5], AMD Embedded [6], TPN [7], and Premier Mounts [8], plus media sponsor VMSD magazine [9].
The Summit will be held Feb, 18-19, 2015, in San Francisco.
Scala, which drives more than 500,000 screens worldwide, is Presenting Sponsor. Scala’s software powers the digital communications of companies like Rabobank, IKEA, Bloomberg, Tommy Hilfiger, Burger King, TMobile, Virgin Megastores, Disneyland Resort Paris, McDonald’s, Warner Bros., Mercedes-Benz, DNB, Hard Rock Hotel, Shell, Esso, Ericsson and IBC-13. Scala is headquartered near Philadelphia, Pa., with multiple subsidiaries across Europe and Asia, and over 500 partners in more than 90 countries.
VMSD magazine inspires and motivates retail professionals with innovative retail design ideas and timely industry news. VMSD celebrates the art and science of retail design, drawing on 118 years of history serving this market. VMSD’s International Retail Design Conference will be held in September, 2015.
GOLD Sponsors:
- Hughes has a long history of providing managed services to distributed, retail organizations. It provides digital signage and interactive distance learning solutions to thousands of retail locations.
- Seneca is a recognized leader in design, integration and manufacturing services for media players and content servers used in digital communications. The exclusive HD family of media players are tested to perform in specific usage environments ranging from digital menu boards, to video walls to self-service kiosk solutions.
SILVER Sponsors:
- AMD designs and integrates technology that powers millions of intelligent devices, including personal computers, tablets, game consoles, embedded applications and cloud servers that define the new era of surround computing. Embedded solutions from AMD give designers flexibility to design intelligent, interactive and immersive experiences with the flexibility of scalable, low-cost and energy-conservative systems.
- TPN is a dynamic retail marketing agency with a proven history for organizing change and inspiring connection in today’s on-demand retail environment. TPN’s Modal Dialog ensures success in dynamic retail, first by identifying a target’s retail mode of behavior and then by creating content in synch with those modes. It delivers Commerce with Imagination for global brands such as Bank of America, PepsiCo and 7-Eleven.
- Creative Realities helps retailers and brands use the latest technologies to create better shopping experiences. It designs, deploys and manages thousands of digital in-store merchandising experiences elevating new looks and themes that inspire shoppers to buy more. It enhances the customer experience and transform a basic signage occasion into a special in-store shopping experience – from digital merchandising, virtual shopping assistants, proximity marketing, mobile activation to social in-store.
Supporting Sponsor is Premier Mounts. Originally focused on LCD and CRT projector mounts, Premier Mounts later developed one of the first after-market plasma-display mounts, the PDM series of plasma wall mounts, and holds many patents for ground breaking features that have become the standard for mounting products.